To create a 'New Soviet Man,' the Bolshevik government in 1926 funded a Russian biologist's quest to create a human-ape hybrid; instead, it produced one of science's strangest scandalsIn 1926, Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanov attempted to create a human-ape hybrid in French Guinea. This controversial experiment aimed to provi...
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War with Ukraine? Russians on the border just shrugMany residents of the border town of Maslova Pristan in southwestern Russia are nonchalant about soaring tensions between Moscow and the We...